hi,
As an fyi IBM, Oracle, CA, and Fujitsu just sent the below note to
the AC forum to start a discussion on moving forward with completing
the standardization work of the referenced specifications.
cheers,
jeff
Begin forwarded message:
> Resent-From: w3c-ac-forum@w3.org
> From: Jeff Mischkinsky <jeff.mischkinsky@oracle.com>
> Date: June 20, 2008 8:17:48 AM PDT
> To: w3c-ac-forum@w3.org
> Subject: Standardization of WS-Transfer, WS-ResourceTransfer, WS-
> Enumeration and WS-MetadataExchange
>
> Hi,
>
> As most of you know, over the last several years fairly good
> progress has been made on standardizing Web services. Many Web
> services specifications have, in fact, been standardized in W3C
> (i.e. SOAP 1.2, WSDL 2.0, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, etc). There is
> still some work to be done.
>
> Accessing data about a resource through Web services is an area of
> the Web services architecture that has yet to be fully realized.
> Some good work has already been done to date, however, some pieces
> of the overall puzzle are still waiting to be completely
> standardized. Several specifications ([2], [3] and [6]) that
> address some of these issues have already been submitted to the W3C
> over two years ago via the Member Submission process [1], but no
> Working Groups have been formed to date to progress them down the
> REC track. A few others (([4], published more than 4 years ago and
> [5], published almost 2 years ago) have been worked on elsewhere and
> have not yet been submitted to a standards organization. In the
> meantime other specifications have started to use them in their
> work; e.g. WS-Management in DMTF and WS-Federation in OASIS.
>
> We believe that it is time for the next step in the open
> standardization of some key specifications that address this issue.
> We believe that four specifications, in particular, work together
> to provide mechanisms for accessing and manipulating the XML
> representation of a resource as well as any metadata associated with
> that resource. The four specifications are:
>